Currently mining at 500k/hour, any tips?

5PIDER

5PIDER
Anybody manage to increase cash flow above 500k/hour? I am mining in a metallic planetary ring, using two mining lasers + 4-bin refinery.


I only have 32 cargo slots in my Cobra. Will increasing cargo space give me a better ratio cash:time, or just let me hold more?


At that point say with 64 slots should I keep everything I mine, or only keep gold, palladium and platinum like I have been?:S

edit: if you're wondering how i manage 500k an hour, its a pristine metallic planetary ring (NOT CLUSTER BELTS), two mining lasers, high capacity refinery, and mastery of scooping fragments.

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I need advice!
 
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Dablin

Dablin
Your earning 500k an hour? lol. I've been playing since BETA and never EVER had past about 300k EVER!

I say you should be the one giving the tips.
 

5PIDER

5PIDER
Dablin said:
Your earning 500k an hour? lol. I've been playing since BETA and never EVER had past about 300k EVER!

I say you should be the one giving the tips.
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I can't scoop fast enough to make more per hour I think. that may be my problem.
 

terminatahx

terminatahx
I lost about 700k of mining progress today crashing into a roid with no shields. I would add silver to the mix, that way you can upgrade to the 5bin refinery.
 

Helo

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5PIDER said:
I can't scoop fast enough to make more per hour I think. that may be my problem.
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500k/hour sound about right, that's what I made in gamma while mining. For the life of me I can't figure out where all that cash went :D

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Side note: I saw you in game the other night... Now I know who to pirate lol
 

5PIDER

5PIDER
Helo said:
500k/hour sound about right, that's what I made in gamma while mining. For the life of me I can't figure out where all that cash went :D
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I think a nice piece of mine went into me accidentally blowing myself up quite a few times in different scenarios.

Edit: Bring the fire :D
 
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Raf von Thorn

Raf von Thorn
5PIDER said:
Anybody manage to increase cash flow above 500k/hour? I am mining in a metallic planetary ring, using two mining lasers + 4-bin refinery.


I only have 32 cargo slots in my Cobra. Will increasing cargo space give me a better ratio cash:time, or just let me hold more?


At that point say with 64 slots should I keep everything I mine, or only keep gold, palladium and platinum like I have been?:S

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I need advice!
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Get a mining friend. One ship is mining, the other one is scooping, switch places from time to time. Also good for getting bounties if you`re attacked. We made way more with my friend.
 

Katkon

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Not from me. I found a pristine metallic field and was bored within 15 minutes. It may be lucrative but I much prefer the other professions.
 

Echostatic

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I dunno how you're even managing that. I hit up some pristine metallic rings and only occasionally found gold and silver, palladium even more rarely. Not a whisper of platinum. Bah.
 

Sexydino

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my max has been about 650k for an hours mining but that was a fluke tbh, my average is around 400-500k per hour if I put my back into it.

This evening I took a type-6 with 102 capacity, whilst my buddy went from roid to roid with a class 2 laser doing the mining, I followed him with a 5 bin refinery picking platinum/palladium/gold only, we ended up with 60 tons of all 3, about 850ks worth in total, split it 50/50

Either way, there's money to be made if you're in a pristine metallic ring.
 

Anguis

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I've been in a pristine mining ring for about an hour now (Njikan system). All I've found thus far in hitting half the belt clusters are rocks with about 5-7% silver, with everything else being minerals. What the heck gives???
 

5PIDER

5PIDER
Anguis said:
I've been in a pristine mining ring for about an hour now (Njikan system). All I've found thus far in hitting half the belt clusters are rocks with about 5-7% silver, with everything else being minerals. What the heck gives???
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Not the cluster belts, the actual asteroid ring around Njikan 4 planet. Cluster belts are very bad.
 

SDEngineer

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Very true - I believe the types of metals/minerals you get are to some extent determined by what type of star (it would also make sense from a Stellar Forge perspective). I have noticed belts/rings around M class stars tend to produce the lower classes of rocks, where G and F type stars seem to be where it's at for platinum/palladium. My current system is a G type with 2 pristine metal rings, and I regularly get 30-50% platinum/palladium rocks (most recent 2 hr trip gave me 17 tons of plat, 11 tons of palladium, 15 tons of gold, and 11 tons of silver, for a per hr average of about 350k profit after the assorted other minerals that got mined along with the good stuff).
 

TankMaster

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SDEngineer said:
Very true - I believe the types of metals/minerals you get are to some extent determined by what type of star (it would also make sense from a Stellar Forge perspective). I have noticed belts/rings around M class stars tend to produce the lower classes of rocks, where G and F type stars seem to be where it's at for platinum/palladium. My current system is a G type with 2 pristine metal rings, and I regularly get 30-50% platinum/palladium rocks (most recent 2 hr trip gave me 17 tons of plat, 11 tons of palladium, 15 tons of gold, and 11 tons of silver, for a per hr average of about 350k profit after the assorted other minerals that got mined along with the good stuff).
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Care to share the system name? :D
 
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